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  1. Re:MaBell lost one on AT&T Wants To Settle With FTC To Avoid Unlimited Data Throttling Lawsuit (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    They offered unlimited money, but as it turned out it wasn't really unlimited.

  2. You say Google, eh? on Google's Toronto City Built 'From the Internet Up' (bbc.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I'm guessing the real goal here is Panopticon:Toronto, where all activities are monitored and monetized.

  3. Presumably that includes the US military.

  4. Re:I don't understand on Edge Beats Chrome in Battery Test, Says Microsoft (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Almost two full workdays of Netflix without a recharge?

  5. This will keep thousands of Chinese from losing their jobs, meaning they won't try to illegally immigrate to America. You have to see the big picture here.

  6. Re:Encrypted text preamble to protect the content on In Apple Mail, There's No Protecting PGP-Encrypted Messages (theintercept.com) · · Score: 1
    My solution is to put this at the end of every e-mail I send. It's worked great so far.

    This message is for the named recipient(s) only. It may contain confidential, proprietary or legally privileged material not waived or lost by any mistransmission. Any interception, disclosure or use of this communication by other persons is unlawful. You must not, directly or indirectly, use disclose, distribute, print or copy any part of this message if you are not the intended recipient. If you believe you have received this communication by mistake, please delete it and all copies from your system, destroy any hard copies and notify the sender.

  7. Is this somehow preferable to breaking a window and letting yourself in?

  8. Re:Upgrade Fatigue on Next PlayStation Is Three Years Off, Sony Says (wsj.com) · · Score: 2

    It's not really a good comparison. It's easy to skip a revision or three in the mobile phone upgrade cycle. With game consoles, if you want to play the new games, you kind of have to have the new console. But I don't want my current one to die before the next one is available, as that would leave me with a bad choice of throwing money away on a replacement current gen console for use until the next gen ones come out, or going without.

  9. Re:Then don't arm them on UK Military Fears Robots Learning War From Video Games (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    If we don't do it, someone else will. We need to do it for the same reason we keep an arsenal of nuclear weapons - to deter others from attacking us.

    And don't even get me started on the necessity for defense from aliens.

  10. Re:Sharing Deep-Fake porn should be Sexual Assult on The US Military is Funding an Effort To Catch Deepfakes and Other AI Trickery (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 2

    You think it'll be acceptable when kids can make and share real-looking videos of their teachers getting plowed by Ron Jeremy?

  11. The AI would quickly pick up on the fact that you don't listen to the same music every Tuesday night and would play different albums for you each Tuesday. It would also quickly learn that you hate live music and would learn that you enjoy new music and so would play that for you.

  12. Re:Fair enough, let others pick it up... on 3D Headphone Startup 'Ossic' Closes Abruptly, Leaving Crowdfunders Hanging (npr.org) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yup, they'll do that right after they return everyone's money.

  13. Simple math on MoviePass' Days Look Limited (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Simple math told us that the business model was faulty. I hope they paid themselves some nice salaries while it lasted.

  14. Re:The Anti-Trump Drivel on Slashdot is Astounding on Bill Gates Shares His Memories of Donald Trump (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    All he needs to do is to not bush the 'button'

    Fast-forward a couple of years.... You had one job. ONE FUCKING JOB!

  15. Re:Public Domain on Congress Is Looking To Extend Copyright Protection Term To 144 Years (wired.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Sure it does. It just means that everything thing that is currently in the public domain is all that will ever be in the public domain.

  16. Re:"10 billion times colder"?!? Who writes such sh on NASA's Atomic Fridge Will Make the ISS the Coldest Known Place in the Universe (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Right. The proper venue for such language is government, where sometimes you need to redefine things on the fly.

  17. And for wasting beer.

  18. I believe we've found the answer.

  19. Re:Gesture is great but toothless, at this point on Senate Votes To Save Net Neutrality (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 2
    bah, you left out the good part that came right after that!

    The viper pit of morons in that chamber will likely get distracted by Diamond and Silk or some shit before they ever get close to a positive vote.

  20. Re:Fake Mining Resources = Fake Hosting Resources? on The SEC Created Its Own Scammy ICO To Teach Investors a Lesson (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    LOL. Slashdotted.

  21. Re:Delete all the real accounts too on Facebook Deleted 583 Million Fake Accounts in the First Three Months of 2018 (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    They don't have a profile on me. I am connected to the internet through multiple VPNs, an onion router, I ... huh, I just got an e-mail for a great deal on a VPN provider, cool beans!

  22. Re:An interesting experiement... on The Rise of Free Urban Internet (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    How long until such a system gets hacked or abused? How would you troubleshoot problems? Do you want your WiFi continuously saturated with traffic passing through from God-knows-where?

  23. Re: Another one bites the dust... on Supreme Court Strikes Down Federal Law Prohibiting Sports Gambling (espn.com) · · Score: 1

    Fuck that. Tax it and fix some bridges.

  24. I would expect things to COLLECT in the deepest portions. As current moves things around, they will eventually tend to settle in the deepest portions as it's much much likely that currents will sweep debris up and out of these places.

  25. And what about conjugal visits? on Jails Are Replacing Visits With Video Calls (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 0

    Never really understood why these were even allowed in the first place.